as in corrupting
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
by insisting that she pay me for helping her, she subverted my noble desire to do a good deed without reward
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Recent Examples of subverting
Below, Gray speaks with THR about life on the road, subverting the pressure of fans’ reaction to his music and finding his complete self recording his new music.
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Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Infiniti’s portrayal of Willa has drawn praise for subverting the trope of the damsel in distress, instead becoming her very own heroine in the tale.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
The film examines how boundaries are inscribed and looks to plants as models for subverting systems of control.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
The Hacks star, 34, made a statement with her arrival to the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, subverting the event's formal dress code.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
On the one hand, he has been accused of possibly subverting the rules to give his team an advantage over theirs.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
The term went viral on TikTok to describe conventionally attractive women who attempt to seem quirky or relatable by subverting typically feminine behavior.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
But they are built on improving, rather than subverting, what players expect from a genre.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Nassi noted that many security researchers assume that subverting LLMs with promptware requires an attacker with serious expertise, massive GPU power, or both.
—PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Infiniti’s portrayal of Willa has drawn praise for subverting the trope of the damsel in distress, instead becoming her very own heroine in the tale.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
The film examines how boundaries are inscribed and looks to plants as models for subverting systems of control.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
The Hacks star, 34, made a statement with her arrival to the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, subverting the event's formal dress code.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
On the one hand, he has been accused of possibly subverting the rules to give his team an advantage over theirs.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
The term went viral on TikTok to describe conventionally attractive women who attempt to seem quirky or relatable by subverting typically feminine behavior.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
But they are built on improving, rather than subverting, what players expect from a genre.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Nassi noted that many security researchers assume that subverting LLMs with promptware requires an attacker with serious expertise, massive GPU power, or both.
—PC Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subverting
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Tales From Beyond the Pale co-creator Glenn McQuaid unleashes a Jason Voorhees whose appearance is concealed not by a hockey mask but a squiggly blur of video noise, corrupting the handheld footage of him stalking college kids through the woods.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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The additional time exposed to harsh radiation is, not surprisingly, corrupting JunoCam's images.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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The alliance should also increase its training with an eye toward degrading or destroying the Kaliningrad facilities should direct hostilities break out.—
James Stavridis,
Twin Cities,
13 Oct. 2025
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The research revealed a strong correlation between microbial plastic-degrading potential and global plastic pollution levels, suggesting bacteria are adapting to what’s available.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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By suddenly disclosing its true holdings, China could drive up gold prices while signaling stronger backing for the renminbi, thus weakening the dollar’s global clout.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Recent economic data has suggested a weakening labor market and inflation up a touch, but not so much as to crack the stock market.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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The former screen siren was fined nearly $25,000 in 2008 after being convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying her country.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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Block destruction is one of Minter’s defensive pillars, and the Chargers have not been destroying blocks on some of these explosive runs.—
Daniel Popper,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Section Two of the act tries to prevent legislative map drawers from diluting the votes of minorities by either packing them into one district or spreading them out among too many districts to have an impact.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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The 2024 European Parliament elections strengthened far-right blocs and pushed the centre-right toward diluting elements of the Green Deal, reframing climate rules as sovereignty or competitiveness threats and amplifying cost-of-living and farmer-protest narratives.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Afghanistan Analysts Network, also reported others were leaving amid plummeting salaries and deteriorating conditions.—
NPR,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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Travelers in the region are advised to remain alert for rapidly changing conditions, as the combination of snow and high winds can produce sudden reductions in visibility and rapidly deteriorating roadways.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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But Antonio distracts him by accusing him in the town square of sending Justina off to El Alcazar and poisoning his son.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
12 Oct. 2025
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Hogan initially denied poisoning her estranged husband, according to police, but later changed her story.—
Mike Stunson,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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For decades, bartenders have been defaming the Mai Tai, debasing it, making and selling versions of the drink that were childish and incomplex, saccharine and flat.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Subverting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subverting. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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